Red Onion Orange Salad Recipe

Pickled red onion orange salad with Feta cheese, Mint, and cilantro. Date night food it is not. But let’s be honest. We’ve all been on dates we would have gladly traded for a salad. This would be that salad.

HOW TO MAKE PICKLED ONIONS

There’s something about the acidic, tart, vinegary, sweet taste that just fills your mouth with a variety of flavors all at once. I always thought it was really hard to make pickled onions.

But then I decided to just get in the kitchen and try it. What I have to do to create a recipe is to eat the dish (several times, for research you understand). Then I get into the kitchen and start to grab things off the shelf and it almost seems like a different part of my brain takes over at that time.

My hands know what to reach for, in a way my brain can’t always verbalize. I seem to know instinctively what will work. I mean. Most of the times I do. Not always! But the more I cook, the easier this process becomes.

I have realized that the process of quick-pickling vegetable is essentially the same. Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, and some kind of seasoning herb/spice. No really. That’s really all pickled vegetables have in them. Where you get to play is the type of vinegar and the type of spice/seasoning.

I think I will try to make pickled beets, pickled ginger, and pickled carrots one of these days soon.